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General Account 1938-1939

by: Richardson, William Bebb; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Archbold Expeditions Collection; American Museum of Natural History; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd: 1938-1939)

Publication date: 1938
Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Topics: Mammals, Description and travel, Travel, Scientific expeditions, Equipment and supplies, Richardson, William Bebb, Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd: 1938-1939)
Collection: fieldnotesclir2016; amnhfieldbooks; biodiversity; americanmuseumnaturalhistory
Contributor: American Museum of Natural History Library
Language: English
Rights: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/permissions
Rights-holder: American Museum of Natural History Library
Item Size: 215.7M

Handwritten in ink in string-bound volume

Pages are numbered consecutively on recto only, 1-105

Account maintained by Richardson between April 1938 and May 1939 while acting as Mammalogist on the 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Includes notes on daily activities, particularly collecting, as well as the organization of the camps and expedition movements, notes about his fellow participants, equipment, the seaplane Guba II, weather, surrounding environment, weather and some personnel listings. Locations include Hollandia, Lake Habbema, Mt. Wilhelmina, the Balim River, the Grand River and the Bele River. Includes diagrammatic sketches of the camps and maps. Much of this account is also available in a typescript version

Part of AMNH Mammalogy Departmental Library and Archives

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant

Abstract: Account maintained by Richardson between April 1938 and May 1939 while acting as Mammalogist on the 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Includes notes on daily activities, particularly collecting, as well as the organization of the camps and expedition movements, notes about his fellow participants, equipment, the seaplane Guba II, weather, surrounding environment, weather and some personnel listings. Locations include Hollandia, Lake Habbema, Mt. Wilhelmina, the Balim River, the Grand River and the Bele River. Includes diagrammatic sketches of the camps and maps. Much of this account is also available in a typescript version.
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Call number: 100213087
Call-number: 100213087
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Genre: Field notes
Identifier: generalaccount100rich
Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t21c88z1t
Identifier-bib: 100213087
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Pages: 214
Possible copyright status: In copyright. Digitized with the permission of the rights holder.
Ppi: 301
Year: 1938
[1938-1939]